Hellenic Bank Pcl (HB) has appointed Nearchos Marangos, a Cypriot career banker and until recently the second highest ranking officer to head its expanding Greek operations The former General Manager M. Tagaroulias who retires in March has been on leave of absence. The shake up was announced by HB CEO Makis Keravnos, who told the
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Motorola announced the launch of the MOTODEV Game Developer Challenge, a competition that will reward two talented developers with the rare opportunity to have their winning applications published by mobile entertainment company and contest title sponsor, I-play. The Challenge is designed to recognize independent developers that are coding to create “the next big thing” in
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Dubai eGovernment’s initiatives at providing essential government services through innovative channels have been commended during the International Conference on Technology (ICT) that was held from February 4-7 in Cairo. In a presentation made by Dubai eGovernment’s eServices Director, Salem Al Shair highlighted the government’s efforts in enhancing the delivery of public services to the region
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Ericsson will deliver the full IPTV solution and end-to-end systems integration services to Vodafone Iceland. The integrated solution will be the first step in the evolution toward converged multimedia end-user services based on Ericsson IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Gestur G. Gestsson, CTO, Vodafone Iceland says: “The IPTV system from Ericsson will enable user interaction, for
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— Cyprus to earn EUR 17 mln from licenses  Several major international oil companies (IOCs) with experience in deepwater drilling are expected to make bids for Cyprus’ inaugural offshore upstream licensing round, the Middle East Economic Survey reported Monday. At last Thursday’s launch of bidding for 11 offshore blocks, industry experts told MEES that
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Eurofreight Logistics Ltd (Cyprus) and UPS Supply Chain Solutions have signed an exclusive authorised service contractor agreement to represent Eurofreight Logistics in 150 countries while Eurofreight Logistics will represent UPS Supply Chain Solutions in Cyprus. This agreement enables Cypriot customers to source their heavyweight products from, or send their products to some 150 countries around
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 Now that the whole ‘striking oil’ fuss has died down and the experts prepare to begin their preliminary work to see if there are any sizeable natural gas or oil reserves, let alone if it is worth to dig costly deepwater wells and pump the crude out, our politicians should decide which game they
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Efforts are underway on the island to boost the local vulture stocks, as their numbers are dangerously dwindling. Limassol Mayor Andreas Christou handed over a vulture egg to Forestry Department officials, saying that the municipality “attaches great significance to this effortâ€. This was the fourth time the town’s council has provided the Forestry Department with
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Cyprus has once again protested to the United Nations Secretary General the recent violations of the international air traffic regulations and the national airspace of the Republic by military aircraft of the Turkish Air Force. The violations were recorded between 4 December 2006 and 31 January 2007, the Cyprus News Agency reported. In a letter
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The Board of Cytrustees Investment Pcl (CYTR) following a thorough examination of the revised public offer by Bank of Cyprus Pcl for the acquisition of up to 50% plus one share of the issued share capital of CYTR for a cash consideration of EUR 2.45 per share, has expressed its opinion that the consideration is
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